All Dirty Harry movies on DVD, HD DVD and Blu-ray

SWEET!

Now I can watch Jim Carry die in HD!

Way cool!

Harry Callahan in HD!!!

The DVD and Blu-ray will be released on the same day ... the HD DVD 3 weeks later.

%&^%&^ dirty harry. lol

and i hate the grain so far on the older bluray catalog titles.

More last minute LOVE from WB and HD DVD. Hmmm maybe they are feeling bad about their move LOL. I will be buying DH in HD DVD!!!

I noticed that most of the older titles on BR have been grainy. It's got to be the way the film is transcoded into digital video. Most of the rips I have seen were mpeg2. I don't see that same breakdown in HD DVD as often. hmmm...

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I noticed that most of the older titles on BR have been grainy.

This is why I want studios to do two different transfers for every movie they make instead of taking choice away from the consumer: One waxy DNR'ed transfer without a spot of grain - soft as silk. The other transfer a sharp, high-bit rate "grainy" transfer that looks like the film from whence it came.

That way we both would be happy.

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I hear ya Mike. The problem is that the more consumers think that way, the more studios will feel compelled to offer those kind of "silky-smooth" DNR'ed transfers, then EE them after to add a bit of fake "depth". Perhaps consumer education would help (as in the wide screen versus full screen DVD debate), but I find more and more people actually prefer the smooth look of a grain-free image, even if a certain amount of detail and depth is lost in the removal process. Oh well, at least a grain-free image is a heck of a lot easier to compress.

Seems like the HD DVD announcement was a mistake, here's what the Digital Bits as to say:

All five Dirty Harry films will also be available in Blu-ray disc (but not HD-DVD - this corrects an error in our original Tuesday post)

http://thedigitalbits.com/#mytwocents

[Post edited by Onyxx on Feb 7, 2008]